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Posted: 2021-08-02T20:18:26Z | Updated: 2021-08-02T20:18:26Z

Rapper DaBaby has issued an apology to the LGBTQ community after his homophobic remarks at a July 25 concert in Miami resulted in him being dropped from several music festivals.

I want to apologize to the LGBTQ+ community for the hurtful and triggering comments I made, DaBaby posted on Instagram Monday. Again, I apologize for my misinformed comments about HIV/AIDS and I know education on this is important.

The Grammy-nominated rapper, born Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, has come under fire after making a series of derogatory statements about women, gay men and people living with HIV during a performance at Miamis Rolling Loud Festival. Among other things, he told the crowd: If you didnt show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases, thatll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up ... Fellas, if you aint sucking dick in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up.

DaBaby later addressed the controversy on Twitter, writing: Anybody who done ever been effected by AIDS/HIV yall got the right to be upset, what I said was insensitive even though I have no intentions on offending anybody. So my apologies.

He stopped short of apologizing to the LGBTQ community, however, telling them: I aint trippin on yall, do you. yall business is yall business.

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